Honey, Please Drop The Scaffolding — Loudly, In Front Of Confused Construction Workers

No doubt coordinated with the Post to burnish his tough-guy image:

Never say Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter is afraid to do the heavy lifting.

The gray-maned magazine mogul took matters into his own hands over the weekend when workers raised a racket as they erected a 22-foot scaffold outside his tony home and near an eatery he owns on Bank Street in lower Manhattan.

Annoyed by the noise, Carter rushed out of his three-story, $5 million townhouse in frigid, 36-degree temps wearing shorts, snatched a 5-foot rail and flung it to the ground in exasperation.

“Scaffold hurling . . . It’s a venerated Canadian sport, like curling,” the Canadian-born Carter joked to The Post yesterday.

“Everybody up there does it.”

Carter then explained, “Fact is, I’ve had construction across the street from me and next door to me for four years. On Saturday morning, a flatbed pulled up and began unloading scaffolding. It blocked the street off and on all day.

“At 7:30 that night, I was home with my family and the sound — and it was loud — just continued.”

To make matters even worse, he said, “cars were by now honking.”

So, he said, “I headed out into the street in my scaffold-hurling gear to see if I could get them to stop.

“I couldn’t get their attention, so I grabbed one of the pieces of scaffolding.

“Not the most appropriate response in such a situation, but there you have it.”